1. How did early man express his identity, culture, and religion?
Cave Art
How did early man express his identity, culture, and religion?

2. Cave Art Why do people create art?
What are some different ways to create art?
What do people use to create art?

3. Cave Art
30,000 to 11,000 years old
Found in Europe- mostly France and Spain
Over 300 caves

4. Cave Art
Who created cave art?
Neanderthals
Cro-Magnon

5. Creating Cave Art Engraving- carved into cave walls
Sculpture/Reliefs- built out of clay
Paintings and Drawings
Paint made from charcoal, clay and minerals
Red, yellow, and black colors

6. Paintings and Drawings
Drawing- used chunks of minerals against cave walls
Painting- ground charcoal, clay, and minerals into a powder and added water
Paintbrushes made out of reeds and sticks
Blew paint through a straw
Drawn on bumps (protrusions) on walls to make images look 3D

7. What did they draw? Animals Bison, mammoths, horses, bears
Side Profiles- side of head, body, tail, ALL 4 legs
Animals drawn in groups
No settings
No surrounding features
such as the ground,
horizon or landscape

8. Humans Not as common as animal drawings NO human interaction
(ex. Fighting)

9. Signs Dots, squares, lines Handprints
Positive Images- hand dipped in paint
Negative Images- blew paint around hand

10. Why Create Cave Art? Instructions Teach others how to do something
Help plan hunts and rituals
Sympathetic Magic
Drawings can come true- drawing a bison means hunters will catch a bison
Gain traits of drawing-
drawing a strong mammoth would make the artist strong

11. Religious Expression
Caves = site of worship
Boundary between human and spiritual world
Part of religious ceremony
Group Identification
Drawing of animal = sign of a clan (prehistoric Mrs. Brown wuz here)

12. Record of Events
Art used to tell a story or keep a record of what actually happened
Recreation
Created art for pleasure or decoration

13. Analyze Cave Art

14. Sculptors Made of ivory, bone, stone and clay
Mostly figures of women “Venus”
Fertility symbols (exaggerates physical female characteristics)
Venus of Willendorf 22,000 B.C.
Found in Austria
Made of limestone
4 3/8 inches tall

15. Video The Mysteries of Cave Art (17:44)